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The Corner has a team of on-the-ground reporters in capital cities ranging from New York to Beijing. Their stories are edited by the teams at the Spanish magazine Consejeros (for members of companies’ boards of directors) and at the stock market news site Consenso Del Mercado (market consensus). They have worked in economics and communication for over 25 years.
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Ibex 26th July 2019

Mediaset Q219: better results than expected, but almost 6% fall in advertising revenues

The Spanish media company published its results for the first half and second quarter of 2019. The principle figures compared with the Bloomberg consensus are: Income 256.4 M€ (-7.9%) vs 253€ estimated; EBITDA 92.7 M€ (+0.8%) vs 87.3 M€ estimated; EBITDA margin 36.1% (vs previous 33.0%); EBIT 87.7 M€ (-1.2%) vs 84.3 M€ estimated; EBIT margin 34.2% (vs previous 31.9%); NAP 74.3 M€ (+3.1%) vs 65.9 M€ estimated and EPS 0.24€ (+9.0%) vs 0.18€ estimated.

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Ibex 26th July 2019

Telefonica Q219: anaemic growth in results; best is increase in cash flow (+4%)

Telefonica published its Q219 results. According to Bankinter market watchers, they are slightly better than expected: Income +0% to 12.142 Bn€ vs 11.981 Bn€ expected by the consensus. Operational profits -12% to 1.802 Bn€ vs 1.755 Bn€. Net profits -4.5% to 862 M€ vs 880 M€. Net debt 40.230 Bn€ vs 40 Bn€.

The possible consolidation of European telecoms drives the sector-and Telefonica-upwards

Ibex 25th July 2019

Cellnex, Masmovil y Telefonica, among top picks in the European telecoms sector

Morgan Stanley | We reviewed the European telecoms sector where we thought, confronted by an environment where there have been numerous profit warnings in the global technology sector (Ericsson, Hexagone, Netflix, Software AG, Tieto), together with our global recommendation downgrade from RV to UW, that the telecoms are well positioned to offer a better performance than seen in Q418.

 

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In Europe 24th July 2019

Generalised fall in all European TV companies: Netflix pressure will last

The impact of Netflix and Amazon on terrestrial TV in Europe has been remarkable. The worst countries are Spain (-7%), the UK (-6%) and France (-5%). Morgan Stanley decided to cut their forecasts and objective prices for European broadcasters. The principal cut is Prosieben, for which they see a downside potential of 20%.

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Markets 22nd July 2019

Holidays in the sun

Chris Iggo (AXA IM) | Sensible economic and monetary policies don’t necessarily go hand in hand with populism (see the recent sacking of the Turkish central bank head). In a world of more extreme policy agendas, a resort to manipulating currencies could be seen. No-one wants a strong currency now and the costs of devaluation are not really recognised in a low inflationary world. But attempting to override markets in setting the international price of currency is a difficult policy, especially if done unilaterally.